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AbbathTheGrim on 31 December 2015

- writer for Valve games Half-Life, Portal and Left 4 Dead shared via Twitter his thoughts on how he thinks Virtual Reality will push PCs in people homes come next year:

Could this be possible?

What are the side-effects and opportunities you expect VR to have?



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ZhugeEX on 31 December 2015

I wouldn't agree with that statement about it bringing more high-end PC's into consumer homes in 2016.

High End VR devices such as Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are only expected to bring in between 1 to 2 million users over the next year and the majority of those will be early adopters who will already have a high end PC or will have bought one anyway. Therefore I don't see an increase in the purchase of high end PC's to begin with.

This statement is a bit like saying that Gear VR will bring in more smartphone users when the two aren't that related at all and in fact smartphone users are growing for other reasons. 



JEMC on 31 December 2015

I highly doubt it.



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vivster on 31 December 2015

First they have to tell the general public that you need a high end PC for proper VR^^



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sethnintendo on 31 December 2015

Yea, because everyone has a couple thousand laying around to drop on a PC.



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AbbathTheGrim on 01 January 2016
vivster said:
First they have to tell the general public that you need a high end PC for proper VR^^

I guess they expect that interest will make people get informed or something.



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

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Ultrashroomz on 01 January 2016

Ehh I dunno, I seriously doubt VR is gonna pick up quickly, and become a hot seller for PC.



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jangelelcangry on 01 January 2016

I don't know about vr future. But also, I don't understand how a $400 console can run vr and a $1k PC is not enough for vr. Can someone explain me that?



barneystinson69 on 01 January 2016
ZhugeEX said:

I wouldn't agree with that statement about it bringing more high-end PC's into consumer homes in 2016.

High End VR devices such as Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are only expected to bring in between 1 to 2 million users over the next year and the majority of those will be early adopters who will already have a high end PC or will have bought one anyway. Therefore I don't see an increase in the purchase of high end PC's to begin with.

This statement is a bit like saying that Gear VR will bring in more smartphone users when the two aren't that related at all and in fact smartphone users are growing for other reasons. 

 

I think thats optimistic. VR isn't something that'll blow up in a day, and it may even be a flop (remember kinect and all the "hype).

 

I have a very causious wait and see thing here. If VR actually proves to be a great gaming experience, then it may well grow over time.



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Zekkyou on 01 January 2016
barneystinson69 said:

I think thats optimistic. VR isn't something that'll blow up in a day, and it may even be a flop (remember kinect and all the "hype).

I have a very causious wait and see thing here. If VR actually proves to be a great gaming experience, then it may well grow over time.

The original Kinect was actually a pretty big success :p I think the most recent figures we have for it are from February 2013, when they announced it'd sold 24 million units (so about a third of all 360 owners at the time).

The Kinect 2 obviously didn't fair quite as well, but i certainly wouldn't have describe that as 'hyped'.